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Airstrikes on Bajaur Training Camps
Bajaur madrassa and training camp hit by helicopter assault; up to 80 killed Satellite map of Bajaur and neighboring Kunar province in Afghanistan. Location of strike in Chingai in red. Click image to view. Just two days after Faqir Mohammed held a tribal meeting in Bajaur to express support for the Taliban and al Qaeda, and vowed to fight the West, the Pakistani government conducted a major strike against a madrassa being used as a terror training camp. Up to 80 were killed in what appears to be a helicopter assault on the camp in the Bajaur town of Chenagai.…
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Afghanistan
After the fighting and dying, the Taliban return as British depart
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India
One held for aiding Al-Badr `terrorist’
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Pakistan
Bajaur accord against anti-state elements
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Pakistan
Sherpao rules out suicide bomb attack on Prince Charles during his visit to Pakistan
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Pakistan
Pakistan accused of providing ‘safe havens™ to Taliban
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Yemen
Yemen arrests 8 Qaeda-linked arms smugglers
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Israel
Israel’s defense minister denies Egypt is reinforcing the Gaza border. Five Israeli Arabs were arrested for suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack. An Israeil-Arab woman has been indicted for conspiring with and membership in a terrorist organization.
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Iraq
(Iraq) Air strikes thwart terrorist ambushes
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Iraq
23 Policemen Shot to Death in Iraq
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Nigeria
The leader of Nigeria’s Muslims, 2 senators included in over 100 killed in plane crash
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh Political Crisis Sparks Riots, Defections
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Gunmen fire on Sunni pilgrims in Iraq, killing 1; US killed 17 insurgents preparing to ambush American troops.
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The Pro-Osama Meeting in Bajaur
Faqir Mohamed holds a tribal meeting that declares Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar “heroes of the Muslim world” Qazi Hussain Ahmad, president of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan, during an anti-U.S., anti-Musharraf rally in Bajaur after the Damadola strike in January 2006. Click image to view. The Taliban and al Qaeda are growing bold in Pakistan’s tribal agencies after the release of nine local al Qaeda functionaries and word that the Pakistani government is prepared to negotiate an agreement that will give them the same control over the agency as the Waziristan Accord did further…
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Afghanistan
al Qaeda has threated Canada with “an operation similar to New York, Madrid, London” if the country does not withdraw from Afghanistan. This isn’t the first attempt at threatening the NATO members. The Canadian Army has been particularly effective in fighting and killing the Taliban in the south.
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Iraq Army Operations in Suwayra
Operations in a city where clashes occurred with Mahdi Army just one week ago Iraqi Army units ‘in the lead.’ Map courtesy of MNF-Iraq. Click map to view. The Iraqi Army’s 3rd Brigade, 8th Division has conducted a large scale cordon and search operation in the city of Suwayra in Wasit province. During the operation, there were two separate engagements, both north of Suwayra, where “25 gunmen were killed and 18 others were arrested in separate incidents,” according to the Kuwaiti News Agency. Ten ‘insurgents’ were killed and another 10 captured when the Army “stormed… an insurgents’ hideout in Al-Hufariyah,”…
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Pakistan
Explosion in Quetta, Pakistan kills 1, wounds 5
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US hails airborne laser as weapons milestone
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Somalia
Hopes high for Somali peace talks
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France
Rioting youths burn hundreds of cars in France, 6 policemen injured
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Iraq
Aide: Iraqi leader playing on US angst
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Army steps up efforts to monitor military bloggers
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Egypt
Egypt boosts security along Gaza border
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Iraq
One terrorist facilitator was killed and and 10 other insurgents were captured in Baghdad. Eleven Iraqi soldiers were kidnapped while traveling on leave north of Baquba.
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India
Indian police thwarted a plot by suspected Pakistani militants to blow up the state legislature in Bangalore. An LeT operative was arrested in Jammu & Kashmir. India calls on Pakistan to dismantle the terror camps in its territory.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: NATO’s Predicament
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Afghanistan
The Taliban rejects Karzai’s offer of talks. NATO and the U.S. condemn the Taliban’s use of human shields in the latest fighting in Kandahar. Upwards of 90 civilians may have been killed. A look at the recent fighting in Panjwai, and the role of close air support in southern Afghanistan.
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Caucasus
Russia: Nord-Ost Anniversary Recalls Ascent Of Female Suicide Bomber
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United Kingdom
Briton backs imam in ‘uncovered meat’ row
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Somalia
U.N. Study: Foreign Troops In Somalia Raise War Risk
